If you never get sick, please tell me your secret!

[Zoraflora]

Im 45 year old female non smoker, rarely drink, stone overweight, eat mostly healthy diet, takeaway once a fortnight and sweets / dessert probably about 4 days per week.

Get enough sleep, exercise about 3 times per week, no major stress in my life.

Im clean, my home is clean. Practice hand hygiene etc

I seem to get sick a lot (not tummy bugs) Ive had flu, covid and a couple of head colds since last Christmas. Why, what am I doing wrong?

My husband on the other hand never gets sick despite eating similar to me & never takes vitamins.

Is it just down to an individuals immune system or is there anything I can do to stop getting ill so often.

I was my hands public toilets but not in my own.
I don’t eat meat so never handle raw meat and no, I don’t wash my hands before cooking in my own house.

I never get sick, I’m vegetarian, overweight, don’t exercise much, eat junk but do eat fruit and veg, don’t take any supplements, have a busy, full time job, 55 and probably don’t get enough sleep! My house is fairly clean. My siblings are the same. I think it’s genes. My DH and one of my DD’s seem to pick up everything. Perhaps stress levels have something to do with it I’m a very relaxed person naturally.

A dislike of people. I stay as far away from them as I can! I never go to the cinema or to gigs, avoid the neighbours, can’t bear crowds and noise, etc.

Rarely wash my hands, eat food after I've dropped it, expose myself to max germs including crowds, the tube etc.

Always been this way, never sick, I think because I let my immune system train and build up strength.

It is always the cleanest ppl who are the sickest!

Same with kids, and they are also never sick. They've thrown up maybe once or twice in their whole lives, very rarely get colds. None of us have ever had flu.

Do you have children?

I was a nanny in my early 20s and spent the first 6 months going from illness to illness. I was run down and felt terrible for 6 months straight. I have rarely been sick since then. I get a cold every 2 or 3 years. I finally caught covid last year but I was a few days behind my DH and recovered before he did.

I'm convinced it's genetic. I never get sick, have never had flu. Or covid, or norovirus. Practice the bare minimum in respect of hygiene e.g. don't wash hands when I come home, totally unworried about bugs etc. Only bleach the loo. Etc. But just have an iron immune system.

I think a fairly unhygienic childhood followed by teens/20s eating only reduced food that often was on the turn and working with children gave me my immunity. I get headaches and have stuff wrong with my nerves but nothing contagious gets me.

Yes, l was a teacher for 26 years. 15 years l never caught anything. I’d become immune!

Meh. I have never done any of this, didn't even possess sanitiser in the pandemic, and I am still hale and hearty

Ditto. Apart from washing my hands after I'd been on public transport. I had sanitiser but it lived in the depths of my handbag and in the end I threw it away - probably used it twice, if that.

But what’s the difference between public transport and any other public place where you touch doors and hand rails and trolleys?

I have a colleague who is, what I’d consider, obsessed with cleanliness.

She cleans/steams and bleaches daily. She goes on about other people’s standards in their homes constantly. In the pandemic, she was one of those ‘wipe down the shopping and isolate it’ types. When she was breastfeeding, she used to wash her boobs before every feed 😂 She takes every supplement going and is always buying into quackery like ‘neurolink’ treatment and cupping.

Guess what? She’s always ill.

Is it cause or effect, though? If I were always getting ill, I'd probably get more obsessed about cleaning, too.